PsyAttention: Psychological Attention Model for Personality Detection (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Personality detection has incorporated psychological features from different personality models, such as the BigFive and MBTI. |
| Approach: | They propose to use psychological models to encode personality features to reduce their number by 85%. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the BigFive and MBTI models and achieves average accuracy of 65.66% and 86.30%, respectively. |
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